"I dare say Joel"-- this was the carpenter down at Innis village--"will lend me a few tools to start with.

But the clearing up will take us all to-day." They ate their dinner in the vestry.

Taffy observed that his father said: "_We_ will do this," or "_Our_ best plan will be so-and-so," and spoke to him as to a grown man.

On the whole, though the dusk found them still at work, this was a happy day.
"But aren't you going to lock the door ?" he asked, as they were leaving.
"No," said Mr.Raymond.

"We shall win, sonny; but not in that way." On the morrow Taffy rang the bell for service as usual.